Last of the semi-long runs

This post is the third in a three-part series to get caught up with my running exploits after having been out of town for Thanksgiving weekend.  Although actually it talks about today's run, so technically it is still on time.

Back in Florida, back to the hot runs.  Although luckily, this morning wasn't too bad, from a temperature/humidity standpoint: it was actually in the 50s to start and didn't get over the mid-60s.  I was hoping to get up early and go, but didn't have much oomph to start my day, so I started around 8am.  Today was 10 miles, the last serious distance before the marathon.  Everything is much shorter from here on out and I think that the longest remaining runs are 5 miles.

However, I still have this super-annoying head cold!  So the weather didn't seem quite so great because I was sweaty the whole time anyway.  It was somewhat helpful to have a point of comparison for running while sick since I didn't really in Detroit with the conditions varying so much from normal.  What I learned was that running while you are sick is not fun.  I didn't feel comfortable really at any point, although the run itself went relatively well.  Perhaps it is all in my head (HA!  Get it?)

Today I also experienced my first technical glitch of the entire training period.  I have to say that this isn't too bad considering that I managed to get through about 340 miles without one.*  I'm not sure that today's run was exactly 10 miles, but that's okay.  Around mile 7.8, the distance tracker seemed to freeze.  Either that, or it was the longest 0.1 mile I have ever run.  Flashbacks to the turkey trot with no 5-mile marker.  Then suddenly, I had run 8.3 miles.  Ditto at 8.8.  In other words, there was some weird 'increments of 0.5' thing going on, then things were fine.  However, I'm not sure that it tracked the distance exactly right.  I still ran to what the phone claimed was 10 miles.  And that will just have to do.

*Incidentally, that is an insane number.  I have run over 340 miles training for this thing.  Insane.  That is further than from here to Savannah, GA.